Up in Arms – Absolute Percent Change
Contributed by Dick Arms

In recent columns I have referred to the Absolute Percent Change, or APC, usually when writing about market indicators but I have not gone into details on its derivation, its interpretation, or its importance. Therefore, instead of my usual column I would like to spend a little time explaining this simple but valuable indicator I recently developed. It is a very basic market measurement that should, one would think, have been developed and studied a century or more ago, but I have been unable to find any reference to this calculation in any of my references. I stumbled across the idea and started to look at it in a basic form, applying it to the Dow Industrials some years ago, but more recently I have become aware that it is applicable to individual stocks and even to other instruments such as commodities. Read More

(Article reprinted by permission from thestreet.com)

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